When Porter gave an emotional speech about how inflation has been hitting her family for months during a private House Democratic Caucus meeting last week, she said it seemed like the first time the personal toll of high consumer prices had sunk in for some lawmakers in the room.
“Too often, Congress recognizes issues too late,” Porter, a top GOP target this fall in a swing district, said in an interview. “I had a colleague mention to me, ‘We’re not seeing it in the polls’ … Well, you don’t know what to ask.”
For Porter, the episode revealed how much work Democrats still need to do to assure voters they understand everyday anxieties, particularly inflation’s strain on family budgets. She’s not alone: Some Democrats have warned for months their party is falling short when it comes to communicating to an increasingly exasperated public.
“assure voters they understand…”
Inflation is not an issue for our betters. It is an issue for lower ranked minions, seeking a career as a ‘tell people what to think’ politician. While it is reassuring that some of the lesser members of the pyramid of woke are passing on the squeeks of the peasants, I, personally, do not think that our betters neither care nor will do anything about it.
See Point 7 in my Evolving List of Left-wing Talking Points (Inflation Edition). Basically a template, you can replace “inflation” with “Hunter’s laptop”, etc:
1) there is no threat of inflation due to the government borrowing then “spending” a trillion dollars
2) there is no inflation, like we said
3) there is some inflation, but not everywhere, and its not bad, so point 1 stands, please ignore point 2
4) there is some inflation in some minor areas such as fuel, housing and food, but its manageable
5) its only for a short time, just like two weeks to flatten the COVID curve, remember then?
6) inflation is actually good, Stephen Colbert says so, and who would know better?
7) the government has a plan for inflation if it ever really becomes a for real problem for real people
8) you’ll love wage and price controls…
9) its corporate greed that somehow didn’t exist two years ago, just started overnight
10) did we mention the inflation that isn’t happening, but would be great, is Putin’s fault?
11) overturning Roe will damage the economy
On point 1, a niggling detail I feel compelled to offer the following amendment.
You said borrowed, don’t you mean print?
All criminal organizations have the need to launder their stolen goods, this includes the counterfeit currency they print.
Step one declare emergency.
Step two sign order to have the central bank print the amount of money government said they need for the emergency.
Step three make grand presentation when giving that big wad of freshly printed currency to the recipient, while said recipient secretly funnels the 10% off for the politicians.
Rinse repeat.
Fenris you are a Badwulf!
All the Dems have to do is hire a few more mules. As long as a Badwulf doesn’t come along and eat them.
FB, it will be, no one gets to screw over the populace without blowback. How long that will take is the question, however it will happen.
How long depends on the stomach pains from lack of food.
As god is my witness, I will never understand how people can like that smiling gargoyle of a stretched skin, Pelosi.
It’s gotta be that lube rack.
Biden’s plan is to print more money and eliminate hydrocarbons.
Both will make things much more expensive.
“You will have to make do with less.” This is the progressive mantra.
“You will have to make do with less.” This is the progressive mantra.
That’s nothing new. PET told those of us out of work thanks to his NEP to “bite the bullet”.
That happened after Crosbie’s budget pronouncement of “Short term pain for long term gain” caused the defeat of Clarke’s short lived government followed by Trudeau and his NEP. Basically every government wants citizens to tighten the belt in some fashion for the greater good. / sarc
Maybe PET didn’t say it, but he certainly thought it. Remember who he “saluted” in Salmon Arm and why they were at his railway car?
I’m hearing the free ‘Safe Smoking Kits’ provided by many municipalities come with a crack pipe. So don’t tell me democrats don’t care about the little people.
Wow, you have to put a quarter in the ones in Vancouver!
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/canada-s-first-crack-pipe-vending-machines-come-to-vancouver-1.1676803
I suggest a 1-use razor blade vending machine and instructions where to slice to cause the least pain.
The government clinics in Victoria place them in a tray outside the doors. Meth kits too and no charge! There aren’t any doctors but you can get a crack pipe. Oddly enough, the number of ODs continues to increase.
Golly, I wonder why????? Obvious is far too simple a word.
They might as well be the boy in the bubble. Not one of them has to pump their own gas, shop for groceries or balance a budget, whether it’s personal or that of the country.
That type of management is typical elsewhere now, it seems. I see that with the rental office for my own apartment. Nobody there has any idea what actually goes on when there’s, say, maintenance being done on a parking area. Nobody gets off their fat backsides to actually walk over and take a look what’s happening, if the work’s done, let alone if it’s done properly.
They treat this place as if it’s a Farcebook page. If it doesn’t say so on the computer, it didn’t happen.
“‘We’re not seeing it in the polls’”
1. First off, because you’re idiots;
2. Second, not everything is revealed in a GD poll;
3. Third, even if something was painfully evident in one of your precious GD polls, you’d likely still be in denial about it and do the opposite anyway, because 1.
“Too often, Congress recognizes issues too late,…” – Thus sayeth Ms.Porter a self described California progressive with two properties and a $174,000 salary while she engages in a little myth making about giving $10.00 bacon the thumbs down. How terrible!! I guess only one little piggy came back from the market.
And who does she go after in her speeches? CEOs of course. The favourite whipping boy of progressives.
Also from this same dimwit Porter re inflation:
https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2022/05/12/after-painting-her-colleagues-as-out-of-touch-dem-rep-katie-porter-says-inflation-reinforces-the-need-for-abortion-n563414
So I’m guessing. It takes a bat to the face of a dem/lib. Before they see the light.
Get out of your office and talk to folks instead of a poll.
“Some people never see the light, till it shines through bullet holes”
Bruce Cockburn, Tropic Moon, 1983
Further proof of how the so-called liberals in US and Canada have completely walked away from the average voter and their concerns. I’m not sure how much good they ever did, but at least they seemed to notice.
The wokester crowd doesn’t breed, unless it involves some sort of medical freak show and a lot of attention.
well Zelenskyy the heeb, needs more money to replace those jets the Ghost is wearing out killing all the Russian jets. This post was approved by my COLON!
“Don’t see it in the polls” . Well a significant portion believe they got 81 million votes and nothing will change their mind.
As an old man who is watching everything I worked for and saved for flushed by incompetent ass holes, they should all stand before me while I pass sentence? Rope anyone?
Its almost time to Khmer Rouge the mofos.